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Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 968-975
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Author:
Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)
Subjects
artists:
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
dates:
1590-1609
media:
Mother of pearl / Gilding
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Shah Abbas, 1571-1629
places:
Persia / Tuscany
sources:
Archives / Correspondence
styles:
Safavid / Mughal
styles:
Indo-Persian School
subjects:
Shields (Armour) / Gifts / Ottomans (people) / Crusades / East-West trade / Diplomacy / Military art and science / Medici family / Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Detail of the painted ceiling in the Sala dell’Armeria (Room 21), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, depicting a Persian soldier by Ludovico Buti. 1588–89. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Shield. Persia, late 16th century. Gold damascened steel, Indian cane, silk, mother-of-pearl, leather and velvet, diameter 64.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Silk fragment with a figured motif. Yazd, Persia, late 16th or early 17th century. Silk lampas, 70.5 by 36 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Shield. Persia, 17th century. Indian cane covered with silk, metal umbo painted in black with golden arabesque engravings and originally embellished with turquoises and other precious stones, 20 by 62 cm. (Palazzo Ducale, Venice).
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Tray with a scene of lovers in a pavilion. Gujarat, late 16th or early 17th century. Mother-of-pearl and lacquer on wood, diameter 43.5 cm. (Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).